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I really enjoyed the remakes of The Fly, The Blob, The Thing, and Night of the Living Dead back in the 80s, but I have a soft spot for the originals as well. I think it's difficult to compare a lot of these films because of the times and climates they were made in, and as long as either version is good everybody wins.

Case in point, I really liked the government conspiracy angle that Chuck Russell's The Blob took and think that it greatly added to the oringal's story, but back when the original was made you would never see such a storyline explored for a number of reasons. Though based on the same basic elements, both are very different films on a number of levels and each have their own strengths and weaknesses accordingly.

Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead is one remake that seems to never get any respect though--I thought it was a great little horror flick and made just the right changes to the story to keep it fresh for long time fans of Romero's original film.

simply-haley wrote: Hey, have you guys thought a remake was better than the original?? Mine are:

House Of Wax (i know their nothing alike but I like this better) The Longest Yard War of the Worlds

hmmm thats what I think. tell me yours!

You gotta be kidding. None of those even come close to the originals. House of Wax (with Vincent Price) was actually a remake itself of Mysery of the Wax Museum from 1933.

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

Maltese Falcon from 1941 Ocean's Eleven from 2001

Other remakes that were good, but aren't superior to their predecessors: John Carpenter's The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, House of Wax (1953), The Big Lebowski (yes, the Big Lebowski is basically a comedy remake of The Big Sleep).

I liked the remakes of Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but they are really too slickly produced overall.

The John Carpenter version of The Thing was one remake that came to my mind, but it was made in a different era and could be much grittier and grislier than the original. Then, upon further thought I realized that the Bogart version of The Maltese Falcon was the 3rd version of the Sam Spade story.

The problem is that most quality remakes are rather uncomparable to the original, like the Dawn remake, or Carpenter's The Thing, or any version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, due to dischords in era and techniques. These remakes are still decent films, they're just different.

Chuck Russell's The Blob and Cronenberg's The Fly are the only remakes I can think of that are much bettter than their originals.